That's the skinny from the 2014 edition of the Farmers' Almanac, which is predicting a hotter than normal summer across much of the Northeastern states.

"Oppressively humid conditions, very wet and thundery for the entire Northeast," Sandi Duncan, the almanac's managing editor, said Thursday in a telephone interview from the publication's offices in Lewiston, Maine.

Back in August, when the 2014 edition hit store shelves, the almanac accurately called the icy winter that belted two-thirds of the country. That forecast was calculated almost two years ago, Duncan said.

"Sometimes Mother Nature throws us a curveball, but we're pretty confident this summer is going to be quite hot and humid," she said. "At first people may not mind, but by mid-July you'll be tired of the heat."

In other words, be prepared to crank up your air conditioners.

You might want to load up on sunscreen, too.

Many Erieites are still weary from living in the snowiest city in America, a distinction earned by its first-place standing in the Golden Snow Globe national snow contest for cities with a population of more than 100,000.

Now you'll need to brace for an upcoming scorcher, says the almanac, which has been making weather predictions since 1818.

The book claims to be right about 80 percent of the time.

"I don't want to dismiss what they do, or shed credit on it, either," John Mayers, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Cleveland, said Thursday.

"There must be something to it," he said. "They've been around for so long. It must work for some people."

Mayers said the Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center on Thursday posted an "inconclusive" three-month outlook for the Erie region in May, June and July.

"Equal chance to be above or below normal temperatures," Mayers said of the outlook. "So I don't know what all goes into (the almanac's) methodology."

The almanac's predictions are based on a secret mathematical and astronomical formula created by its founder, David Young, 196 years ago.